An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul.

  • Paul, George Onesiphorus, Sir, 1746-1820.
Date:
[1792]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 7° ] the lock,—this he did not pick, but opened it by means of a falfe key which he was an entire month in working to his purpofe with tools ufed in the manufacture, unobferved by the manu- facturer ;—with the fame key he liberated two other prifoners. Having got out of their cell the three prifoners met W'ith no difficulty in paffing the gate of the diviffon, for the night-lock was notfe cured.,—an in- attention which, having frequently been ob- l'erved by the prifoners, prompted them to their defign.—Thus efcaped from the interior fecurity, they fcaled the outward wall by means of a rope ladder made of cordage at different times fecreted from the manufacture, alfo unobferved by the manu- facturer. The conclufion feems by no means doubtful, That there has been in the keeper, great neglcCl of thofe means of fecurity which .are fuppofed to exijl from regulation ;—and fill greater neglcCt in the manufacturer, in not at- tending to the quantity of his materials and the number of his tools,—and in fuffering prifoners, under his care, to have accefs to thofe tools, when not under his infpcClion.—I fear alfo, it proves \ye muff provide an ultimate fecurity beyond our dependance on the attention of the keepers ;— and if it is proved that further reffraint on the Prifoners would be improper; that further fecurity in the locks is unnecejjary \—we have only the alternative to raife the walls and to arm them with chevaux de frize. If